Emma Lagesson

“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“There are times I think that none of this matters. Why put myself in danger with this book of the night? But I have to because if I write it, then it was real; if I write it, maybe we won’t just be part of a dream contained in a planet, inside a universe hidden in the imagination of someone who lives in the mouth of God. Each of these words contains my pulse. My blood. My breath.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, The Unworthy

“She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War